Krzysztof Kowalczyk wrote:
However, just pointing the fact that its possible that the research migh be wrong is not an argument. You can apply this silly reasoning to any research ever done, especially in psychology, given that isolating primary factors isn't easy in psychological studies.
Indeed, that in itself is probably enough to take the research with the very large grain of salt. Only occasionally do strong claims in psychological studies end up actually being accurate ones. Even correlations in psychology are very error-prone, given how difficult it is to design an unbiased experiment, and causational claims are doubly so.
(Just recently I read an article in a refereed journal giving good reason to believe that _all_ studies done to date on antidepressants are invalid. And that's an area where there's been tons of work with billions of dollars spent on very carefully trying to prove results.)
-Mark